Reduction of Environmental Impact from Tropical Shrimp Trawling through the Introduction of By-catch Reduction Technologies and Change of Management: Project Brief

This project addresses the problem of discarding unwanted catch and by-catch of juvenile food fish in particular through the introduction of appropriate fishing technologies and practices in combination, where appropriate, with introduction of legislation and a management framework including control and enforcement strategies. It also aims at introducing solution that avoid capture of turtles where such by-catch exists in countries Nigeria, Cameroon, Iran, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Mexico, Indonesia and Philippines.